Bruno Kirby Biography

Fast Facts

• Grew up in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City, where his dad (character actor Bruce Kirby) took him to see movies on 42nd Street and to acting classes taught by Lee Strasberg
• Worked as an usher at Radio City Music Hall
• Appeared in the 1972 pilot for M*A*S*H
• Introduced costar Marlon Brando to real-life "godfather" John Gotti during the filming of The Freshman
• Was allergic to horses and required daily injections during the filming of City Slickers
• Made his Broadway debut in 1991, when he replaced Kevin Spacey in Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Lost in Yonkers
• Costarred in the 1996 film Sleepers, which was set in Hell's Kitchen; he remembered seeing Lorenzo Carcaterra, whose book was adapted into the film, around the neighborhood when they were both kids
• Died from complications related to leukemia in 2006